| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/capitol | | UPC: 00724385337529 | | Release Date: 11/26/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60135532 | | Item#: MLDPPX | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26588 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes bonus DVD. | | Poison: Bret Michaels (vocals); C.C. Deville, Richie Kotzen, Blues Saraceno (guitar); Bobby Dall (bass); Rikki Rockett (drums). | | Recorded between 1986 & 1999. Includes liner notes by Bret Michaels. | | Personnel: Bret Michaels (vocals); Richie Kotzen, Blues Saraceno , C.C. DeVille (guitar); Rikki Rockett (drums). | | Audio Remasterer: Kevin Reeves. | | Liner Note Author: Bret Michaels. | | Photographers: William Hames; Annamaria DiSanto; Nitin Vadukul; Neil Zlozower. | | Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996 is as definitive as a Poison compilation could hope to be. Featuring a full 18 tracks, including all of their Top 50 hits ("Talk Dirty to Me," "I Want Action," "Nothin' but a Good Time," "Fallen Angel," "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "Your Mama Don't Dance," "Unskinny Bop," "Something to Belive In," "Stand," among others) plus two unreleased cuts ("Sexual Thing," "Lay Your Body Down"), the album boasts every worthwhile song the group ever recorded, augmented by Bret Michaels' track-by-track commentary. Though the album isn't sequenced in chronological order, it plays like an excellent mixtape, which actually makes the album more listenable. Even on a compilation, Poison wears a little thin -- there are still dull moments among these 18 songs, mainly in the form of lesser-known album tracks and singles -- but still, Greatest Hits 1986-1996 is the most enteraining album the band ever released. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Duane Baron; John Purdell; Poison; Ric Browde; Richie Zito; Tom Werman; Bruce Fairbairn |
Engineer: Scott Lechner |
| | Artist Overview | | Although they weren't the first, Poison are perhaps the definitive hair-metal band. The hard-rockin' quartet played a surefire mix of glam riffage and metal crunch that reached its peak in popularity during the late 1980s. Unabashed hedonists, Poison took Kiss's mantra of "rock & roll all night and party everyday" to untold heights, and sported make-up, teased hair, and outfits so garishly scarf-laden Steven Tyler and Keith Richards themselves would blush. The arrival of grunge obliterated hair-metal, but Poison soldiered through the '90s and 2000s, and embarked on a successful anniversary tour in 2006. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/26/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 53375 | | Label : Capitol/EMI Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724385337529 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (12/20/96, p.76)
- "Poison, who dressed even trashier than the bad girls in their songs, started out in joyous celebration of partying...and looking for a kiss....This single-disc overview covers those bases..." - Rating: BQ (12/00, p.148)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Chicks-and-beer prom tunes....glorious brain-dead testaments to an age when rebellion came with lip gloss and leather pants." |
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